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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Modifications of the Foot 



Tail 



External Covering or Feathers 



Contour feathers 



Down Feathers 



Semiplumes 



Filoplumes 



Powder Down 



After-Shafts . 



Peculiarities of Arrangement and Structure 



External Variation at Different Seasons 



Adaptation of Colour 



Albinism 



Melanism 



Migration 

 Eoutes of Migrants 

 Song and Gestures 

 Nidification 

 Eggs 



Incubation . 

 Moult 



Velocity in Flight 

 Age 

 General Index. CARINAT^ 

 Index to Game Birds . 



Rasores (Soratchers). Game Birds 

 Crypturi (Tinamous) 

 Pterocletes (Sand-Grouse) 

 Gallince (True Game Birds) 



(Grouse, Turkeys, Guinea Fowls) 

 (Pea-Fowls, Pheasants, Jungle-Fowls) 

 (Quails, Partridges, Snow-Cocks) 

 (Guans, Curassows, Megapodes) 

 (Bustard and Button Quails) 

 Index to Shore Birds 



Grallatores (Waders). Shore Birds 



GrallcB (Rails, Water-Hens, Finfoots) 

 „ (Cranes, Sun-Bitterns, Trumpeters) 

 „ (Bustards, Florikins) 

 Limicolx (Plovers, Jaganas, Lapwings, Stilts) 



, (Curlews, Godwits, Sandpipers, Ruffs, Stints. 

 Phalaropes, Woodcocks, Snipes) 

 Herodiones (Ibises, Spoonbills, Storks, Herons. 

 Bitterns) . 

 Index to Water Birds .... 



Natatores (Swimmers). Water Birds 



Gavios (Gulls, Terns, Noddies, Skuas) 



Steganopodes (Tropic Birds, Pelicans, Cormorants, Boobies. 



Frigate Birds) 

 Tuhinares (Petrels, Shearwaters, Albatrosses) 

 Phcenicopteri (Screamers, Flamingoes) 

 Anseres (Swans, Geese, Ducks, Teal, Pochards, Mergansers) 

 Pygopodes (Grebes, Loons) 

 Alcce (Auks, Razorbills, Puffins) 

 Impennes (Penguins) 

 Alphabetical Index 



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